Word: boast
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...Clifton is the high participation rate in this year's drive--the highest since 1967-68. To date, more than 16,000 people have contributed to the drive and Clifton said he hopes to hit the 40-per-cent mark. In contrast, Yale, Dartmouth and Princeton, which usually boast greater participation rates than Harvard, suffered a decline this year, according to data Clifton received a few months...
Most of the recollections--not necessarily in chronological order--stemmed out of my activity in the then Harvard Liberal Club, which in those days could boast a clubhouse heavily mortgaged but benefiting by the benign trusteeship of at least two faculty members: Arthur Holcombe and Arthur M. Schlesinger (the father, of course). Much of our activity was unstructured because we were...
There is a rich literature of political assault. "We love him for the enemies he has made" was the boast of Grover Cleveland's supporters in 1884. Teddy Roosevelt gloried in confrontation with tycoons ("malefactors of great wealth"). F.D.R. had his "economic royalists" to pummel. Harry Truman is still celebrated as a man who liked to "give 'em hell...
...shores. But as he has commissioned new vessels that seem designed primarily to attack U.S. ships, they have gradually pushed down the Norwegian Sea and into the North Atlantic. They have steamed through the eastern Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, even the Caribbean. By 1973 Gorshkov was able to boast: "The flag of the Soviet navy flies over the oceans of the world...
...chairman of the economics and chairman of the economics department at MIT, admitted yesterday that Harvard posed "MIT's most severe competition" in graduate economics instruction. "I doubt," he said, "that our curriculum is very different from Harvard's on paper." He added that most graduate economics schools boast similar programs of econometrics, micro- and macro-economics and economic history...